Pointing-trowel



(N01 Model.) V 0. M. BENSON. PYOINTING' TROWBL No. 502,872. Patented Aug. a, 1893:

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Witnesses: I inventor.

UN TED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

CYRUS M. BENSON, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

POINT! NG-TROWEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,872, dated August 8, 1893.

Application filed June 18, 1891. Serial No. 396,716. (No model.)

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved trowel for use on plain work. Fig. 2is a plan view of same having set off in shank for use in angles. Figs. 3 and I are details in section showing plane and concaved faces, and same letters refer to like parts.

My invention relates to improvements in trowels and especially to a trowel for pointing brick and other masonry and for filling the joints between the bricks. Itis designed to fill or point the horizontal joints and also the perpendicular joints with equal convenience.

It consists of a long narrow blade having a plane or concaved face and parallel sides and a suitable handle and further of a long narrow blade as described and having its outer end turned backward at a convenient angle for use in pointing perpendicular joints.

In said drawingsa represents the blade and d the handle. The blade has the face I) either plane or concaved and the parallel sides 0. At the outer end of the blade a is the perpendicular jointer c forming a convenient angle with the other. For plain work the handle This The operation of my improved trowel is as follows. The mortar or cement is spread out thinly on a hook. A small quantity of the mortar is taken up on the face of the trowel and inserted in the horizontal joint and firmly pressed therein and so also with the angular part e. When the trowel is used for a jointer to smooth the joints the long narrow blade is drawn along the joint and the angular part c is used to smooth the perpendicular joints.

The advantages of my improved trowel are convenience in manipulation and neatness of work done with it. On account of its small width the workman can see just Where to place the mortar so that there is no danger of getting the mortar on to the face of the brick as is the case with the trowels in common use which have a pointed or tapering blade. The set off sidewise in the shank enables the workman to fill the jointsin angles as readily as elsewhere. The part of the pointer that is used for the horizontal joints may be of any convenient length and the part for the perpendicular joints should be about the length of the width of a brick.

Having thus described my invention and its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A pointing trowel having a long narrow blade with parallel sides, a suitable handle and a shank having a right or left set ofl therein, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A pointing trowel having a long narrow blade with parallel sides and a short narrow blade arranged at an angle to said long blade, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two 

